Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Frances Tracy Pennoyer, 19, granddaughter of Banker J. P. Morgan; and August Hamilton Schilling, 25, Manhattan engineer son of San Francisco Utilityman Rudolph Schilling; at Locust Valley, L. I. Banker Morgan was in his usual front pew...
...Army's breeches. Another pinprick was violent criticism by the Legislature of the U. S. Army for starting construction of an airport on private property which the Army intended to purchase. The Army's Commander, Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, was refused permission to sit in a pew of the British Legation at an Independence Day service in Panama Cathedral...
...cropped up with increasing frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman that Henry Ford settle his differences with labor...
...Copley Productions is merely trying to give Boston a better than average taste of amateur theatricals, they're doing a first rate job. But if they seriously consider themselves a testing ground for plays of Broadway calibre, they're very definitely nestling in the wrong pew. Their offering this week, "Return Engagement," looks like a very bad combination of "Stage Door" and "Charley's Aunt." The title of the play shows at least a sense of humor on the part of the author--it very definitely is a return engagement of something you've seen innumerable times before...
...When friends upbraid him for breaking confidences, Walter Winchell grovels, "I know-I'm just a son of a bitch." But Winchell lets no one cry "Amen" to this judgment. The late Editor Marlen Pew of the tradesheet Editor and Publisher also criticized Winchell as a bad influence on the U. S. press, was thereafter mentioned by Winchell as "Marlen...